Recipe: Yummy Jeweled Rice Pilaf

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Jeweled Rice Pilaf. This gloriously flavored and fabulously beautiful Jeweled Persian Rice Pilaf makes the most superb side dish. The rice is soft and fluffy and cooked in stock to give it a great depth of flavor. Lightly spiced with cinnamon, cumin, and cardamom, then finished with cranberries, lemon, and pistachio, this is a touch of the Middle East.

Persian Jeweled Rice is a spectacular rice pilaf topped with colorful gem-like fruits and nuts.

This popular Middle Eastern wedding dish is a celebration in itself ~ it's gluten free, vegan, and incredibly delicious!

This dish is called jeweled rice because it is golden and glistening, laced with butter and spices and piled with nuts and gem-colored fruits.

You can cook Jeweled Rice Pilaf using 17 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Jeweled Rice Pilaf

1. Prepare 4 tbsp of olive oil.

2. Prepare 2 tbsp of unsalted butter.

3. You need 1 of medium onion - finely chopped.

4. You need 500 g of basmati rice - washed,soaked and drained.

5. Prepare 1/4 tsp of ground cardamom.

6. It’s 50 g of lentils - washed,soaked and drained.

7. You need 1/4 tsp of ground cumin.

8. You need 1 of medium carrot - julienned.

9. You need 1 pinch of salt.

10. It’s 1/4 tsp of ground turmeric.

11. Prepare 600 ml of water - to cook rice.

12. Prepare 1/4 tsp of saffron threads - soaked in a little hot water.

13. Prepare 50 g of dates - pitted and chopped.

14. You need 50 g of unsalted pistachios - toasted.

15. You need 50 g of slivered almonds - toasted.

16. You need 50 g of raisins.

17. You need 50 g of dried cranberries.

In Iran, it is typically served at weddings or other.

Yes, making this rice is a time commitment and a labor of.

This dish is called jeweled rice because it is golden and glistening, laced with butter and spices and piled with gem-colored fruits Some of the ingredients called for may require some effort to find, but you can make substitutions If you cannot get dried barberries (imported from Iran), you will need dried cherries or goji berries or dried cranberries Drain the rice into a large fine-mesh sieve, rinse with cold water and turn it out into a bowl.

Gently mix the remaining saffron orange blossom water and the reserved carrot/orange syrup to the par-boiled rice.

Jeweled Rice Pilaf instructions

1. Heat oil and butter in a rice pot then add the onions and sauté it until fragrant and translucent. Stir in the rice and lentils, followed by the carrot, cardamom, cumin, turmeric and salt. Add sufficient water to cover the rice and leave to cook..

2. When rice is halfway done, pour the saffron with the water into the rice cooker and be mindful not to stir. Once rice is cooked, stir in half the dates, nuts, raisins and berries, and scatter the rest over the rice when serving..

Take a large spoonful of rice at a time and gently spread it over the bottom of the pot.

Give the pot a shake to even out the base.

Remove from heat, add butter and orange zest, and fluff rice with a fork.

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Sprinkled with dates, nuts, and cranberries, this Jeweled Rice Pilaf is flavourful on its own, while making a perfect base for curries and sides.